Unit 3 Cultural Patterns And Processes

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Acculturation

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when one group of people adopt the culture traits of another culture

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Assimilation

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The process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture

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Cultural adaptation

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new people adapt to the culture of the previously existing people

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Cultural core/periphery pattern

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core-periphery idea that the core houses main economic power of region and the outlying region or periphery houses lesser economic ties

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Cultural ecology

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the place and location of a specific culture based on ecology

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Cultural identity

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Ones belief in belonging to a group or certain cultural aspect

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Cultural landscape

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the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape

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Cultural realm

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The combination of the cultural traits that is in a group that spreads over an area

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Culture

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the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition

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Formal region

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An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics

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Functional region

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an area organized around a node, or focal point

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Vernacular

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A place that people believe exsits as part of their culture

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Expansion Diffusion

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The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process

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Relocation Diffusion

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The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another

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Innovation adoption

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Study of how why and at what rate new technology spreads throughout a culture

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Maladaptive diffusion

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Diffusion of a process with negative side effects or What works well in one region may not in another

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Sequent occupance

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To refer to such cultural succession and its lasting imprint proposed by Derwent Whittlesey

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Adaptive strategies

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technology, ecology, demography, and economies that define human behavior

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Anglo-American landscape

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an American, especially an inhabitant of the United States, whose language and ancestry are English

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Characteristics

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a distinguishing quality

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Architectural form

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the look of housing, effected by the available materials, the environment the house is in, and the popular culture of the time

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Built environment

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The part of the physical landscape that represents material culture, including buildings, roads, bridges, etc.

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Folk Culture

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Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.

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Folk food

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traditional food

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Folk house

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common houses in America

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Folk songs

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traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture

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Folklore

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unwritten lore (stories, proverbs, riddles, songs) of a culture

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Material culture

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objects of natural or culural significance

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Nonmaterial culture

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abstract or untangible human creations of society (such as attitudes, beliefs, and values) that influence people’s behavior

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Popular culture

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the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images, and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal onsensus within the mainstream of a given culture, specificall Western culture of the early to mid 20th century

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Survey systems

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the system surveys are organized by

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Traditional architecture

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buildings that are generally thought of as traditional and old

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Creole

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a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated

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Dialect

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regional variation of a language distinguished by vocab, spelling and pronunciation

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Indo-European languages

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a family (or phylum) of several hundred related languages and dialects,[1] including most major languages of Europe, Iran, and northern India, and historically also predominant in Anatolia and Central Asia.

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Isogloss

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A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs

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Language

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a set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols that are used for communication

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Language family

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a group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin

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Language group

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a set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics

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Language subfamily

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a smaller group of related languages within a language family

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Lingua franca

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A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages

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Linguistic diversity

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the more different the language the more diferent the people that speak them

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Monolingual

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Speaking one language

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Multilingual

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Speaker more than one language

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Official language

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The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.

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Pidgin

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a simplified form of speech developed from two or more languages

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Toponymy

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the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language. Books definition: Place name.

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Trade language

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A language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other.